Jury Awards $1.5 Million to LA County Prosecutor Who Sued DA George Gascón for Retaliation

A Los Angeles jury awarded $1.5 million in damages March 6 to a former head prosecutor with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office—who alleged she was given a demotion after raising objections to DA George Gascón’s juvenile sentencing reform policies.
The week-long trial of Shawn Randolph was the first of nearly 20 such cases.
Randolph had been removed from her position as Head Deputy District Attorney overseeing all juvenile cases in early 2021 and was moved to the parole division—a “dead-end position for a head deputy,” according to her complaint filed in 2021.
Randolph’s objection to Gascón’s policies mainly focused on the latter’s directive to minimize the severity of any criminal charges filed against juveniles, regardless of the level of violence involved, according to the suit….